Akins HS visit

Tami and I were happy to be back at Akins HS today, where we set up our materials on a bank of tables along one side of the cafeteria during their lunch periods.  Thanks to the custodial workers, cafeteria workers, school staff and students for making us welcome!

It was great to see this: a student had sewn one of our patches onto his jacket!

We posted one of our fliers next to an Army Strong poster we saw in a hallway.  The  AISD  policy that allows us into the high schools also allows for our materials to be placed next to recruiting materials.

This Seals poster was displayed in a hallway.  Do schools really want to  make assault weapons  seem cool?

We posted one of our fliers next to this Navy poster in a hallway.

One of several posters we liked that were up in the hallways

We liked this display case message!

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This program looked interesting

SOY table at Austin HS, Loyal Forever

Thanks to Maroons for making us welcome at Austin HS today!  We enjoyed talking with students who came by our table, and several teachers gave us the high sign, too.  Students were creative and imaginative -- as always.  We had a new military realities display which incorporated pages from an article about rape in the military that was published just this week in the Rolling Stone Magazine.  It's a very serious issue that only seems to be getting worse instead of better.
It was good to see anti-bullying posters up in the hallways.  Several shown in the photos below were produced by the Smithsonian Institute.

Our new display

Tami talking with students at our table

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nice idea to stencil the inside of the folder

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hall poster